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ADVANCES IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
TECHNOLOGIES

ADVANCES IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES

The Shingo Model Series

Designing Systems That Shape Workplace Culture and Performance

Build Excellence

Routledge Studies in Trust Research

Corporate Self-Financing and Market Trust examines whether and under what conditions internally generated financial resources strengthen investor trust in listed food and beverage companies. Combining corporate finance theory with comparative evidence from the United States, developed European markets, and emerging European markets, the book develops a trust-centered model of internal financing. It distinguishes internal financing capacity from self-financing and shows that retained earnings, operating cash flow, liquidity, leverage, governance, ESG disclosure, and capital allocation discipline do not influence market trust independently. Their effects depend on institutional context and the credibility with which financial decisions are communicated.Drawing on company-level data for 2019-2024, the book integrates financial ratio analysis, non-parametric tests, panel regressions, moderation analysis, structural equation modeling, and comparative case studies. It also introduces a multidimensional Investor Trust Proxy based on observable market measures. The book will be valuable to researchers and advanced students in corporate finance, accounting, agribusiness, and sustainability, as well as managers, investors, and policymakers seeking to understand how financing decisions become credible market signals.

A Comparative Study of Food and Beverage Companies in the U.S. and Europe

Corporate Self-Financing and Market Trust

Project Management, Planning and Control: The Art and Discipline of Delivery, Ninth Edition is a comprehensive guide designed to equip the reader with essential principles and techniques for managing engineering and technical projects from start to finish. This ninth edition is a widely recommended handbook, now enhanced with fresh insights to meet the evolving needs of project management professionals. Featuring brand new case studies, this edition includes significant updates on governance, adjudication, Building Information Modeling (BIM), agile project management, culture and diversity, international projects, sustainability, artificial intelligence, and digital tools. Chapters are restructured with clearly titled sections organized by theme, improving clarity and usability. Ideal for those pursuing Project Management Professional (PMP) qualifications, this edition aligns with the latest Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) from both the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Association of Project Management (APM). It also includes questions and answers to help readers test their understanding. This book is an indispensable resource for both students and seasoned professionals seeking to master project management.

The Art and Discipline of Delivery

Project Management, Planning and Control

Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks

This handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of food and agricultural policy in Europe, moving beyond a nutrition focus, to include the health, social justice and environmental dimensions of the food system.With concerns over the global economy, geopolitical conflicts and the impact on human and planetary health, food policy has emerged as a key policy domain for Europe. Acknowledging that food and agricultural are areas of major concern for many diverse groups in society, often representing competing interests, this handbook provides a systemic and multifaceted overview of the current food and agricultural policy arena in Europe. The handbook utilises a food systems approach, organised into seven sections representing the food cycle from production and processing to distribution and consumption, as well as waste and disposal. Interdisciplinary chapters explore the tensions in policy development between cost and sustainability, industry power versus consumer demands, local supply versus intensive and unsustainable growth, and corporate control versus citizen and workers' rights. Ultimately, this handbook demonstrates the need for what are currently fragmented food and agricultural policies to be unified in order to support global aims of developing sustainable and healthy food systems for all.This handbook will be essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and policy makers interested in researching, theorising, debating, and solving the multifaceted phenomenon of food and agricultural policy.

Routledge Handbook of Food and Agricultural Policy in Europe

From Design to Business Strategy

The Complete Guide to Elevator Remodeling

Kamal Shair's book is a classic rags to riches story: the village boy, who with determination and education, achieves business success, wealth, more wealth, and then influence and power. What makes it unusual is that it emanates from the Arab world. Rarely among Arabs have individuals from thoroughly modest backgrounds, with no access to links, networks or connections become truly global commercial players. Shair was born in a small town in what was then Transjordan and dragged himself through school (his mother was illiterate), moved to college in Beirut, then sailed off to America (Michigan and Yale) and returned to the Middle East to create a multinational corporate empire engaged in trade, construction and manufacturing. Dar al Handasah - Arabic for House of Engineers - was founded in a small flat in Beirut and today, spans the globe with offices in 37 countries. In its early years, Dar al Handasah fought off competition from established western consultancies to win contracts for prestige engineering throughout the Middle East. Eventually, its activities extended further to Europe, the United States, Africa and Asia. By not following the usual pattern of patronage and favours, Kamal Shair applied a fresh kind of ethic in an environment with a loosely-structured business ethic. In the process, he lived through and witnessed at first hand and at close quarters some of the most dramatic events of the modern Arab world. This is quite an extraordinary tale and a very original prism through which to read the turbulent post-World War II history of the Middle East. At the same time we see the growth, despite all the odds, of one of the world's great engineering and business enterprises in a narrative of epic and inspirational proportions.

The Emergence of an Arab Global Business

Out of the Middle East

A Practical Guide to the Toyota Production System

Genba Structure

Revolution of Electric Vehicles Business presents a comprehensive and forward-thinking analysis of how electric vehicles (EVs) are reshaping global transportation, energy systems, and business strategies. Bridging engineering, management, and sustainability, this book explores EV development, supply chain models, power grid innovation, and market liberalization through the lens of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).This book is an essential reading for professionals, researchers, and policymakers, providing actionable insights into the future of sustainable energy systems and the next generation of business innovation. Readers will also discover how companies are optimizing costs and accelerating growth in the competitive global EV markets.This book provides additional insights into the EV industry, building on Professor Monden's seminal work. It does not claim to be comprehensive and can be read like an updated textbook/case book on an industry that is becoming increasing important and prominent in a polycrisis world facing disruptions in energy supply disruptions (thus the need for energy-conserving tech like EVs), rare earths minerals scramble and Industrial Revolutions 4.0/4.5/5.0 technological disruptions (of which EV plays a part in the digital revolution). This book does not claim to offer new field-based insights but, drawing on secondary sources, provides a summation of selected latest developments to illuminate certain trends, developmentalism, and updates in this dynamically-changing industry.

REVOLUTION OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES BUSINESS

This book introduces Lean philosophy and illustrates the effective application of Lean tools with real-world case studies. From fundamental concepts to integrated planning and control in pull production and the supply chain, the text provides a complete introduction to Lean production. Coverage includes small batch production, setup reduction, pull production, preventive maintenance, standard work, as well as synchronizing and scheduling Lean operations. Detailing the key principles and practices of Lean production, the text also illustrates effective implementation techniques with case studies from a range of industries. Includes questions and completed problems in each chapter. Explains how to effectively partner with suppliers and employees to achieve productivity goals.Designed for students who have a basic foundation in production and operations management, the text provides a thorough understanding of the principles of Lean. It also offers practical know-how for implementing a culture of continuous improvement on the shop floor and in the office, creating a heightened sense of responsibility in all stakeholders, and enhancing productivity and efficiency to improve the bottom line. In this third edition, the author addresses management's role in Lean production. Early observers of Japanese methods focused on the shop floor to see amazing things unlike anything practiced elsewhere. The thinking was that if the "methods" could be adopted by companies elsewhere, those companies would experience the success of the Japanese. What the early observers hadn't considered were dramatic differences in the way those companies were managed, both daily and strategically.The "management side" of Lean production is addressed in two new chapters, one devoted to daily management and the other to strategy deployment. Additionally, there is a new chapter that addresses breakthrough improvement and an approach to achieving it called the Production Preparation Process. Every chapter has been revised and expanded to better tell the story of Lean production-its history, applications, practices, and methods.

A Comprehensive Guide to Lean Methodologies and Management Practices for Operational Excellence

Lean Production for Competitive Advantage

Regulating the Future of Work

Legal Governance of Agentic AI and Autonomous Agents

“Hell with the lid taken off,” the “Steel Valley,” and the “Valley of the Giants” were phrases that, until the 1980s, rang proudly through Pittsburgh’s pulsing iron and steel economy. For more than two centuries, the Pittsburgh region was world-renowned for the scale and intensity of its manufacturing complex. Its myriad ovens and furnaces churned fire and soot into the dreary skies, causing the hills to glow with a fiery luminescence. At times, more than one-quarter of the world’s steel was made there as Pittsburgh’s men and women forged both the steel for a growing nation and a grimy, blue-collar personality for the region. The Rise and Fall of Pittsburgh Steel traces the origins, explosive growth, stagnation, and ultimate collapse of this remarkable industrial complex. Starting as a rough-and-tumble frontier village in the 1790s, Pittsburgh had risen by the end of the American Civil War to stand as the center of the young nation’s metalworking industries. But this was just the beginning. By 1910, the Steel City’s population had grown another tenfold, from about 50,000 in 1860 to over 500,000. By then, it was the fifth largest city in the United States, producer of well over half the nation’s steel, and the site of over 3,000 manufacturing plants employing an astounding 250,000 workers. During World War II, the Pittsburgh region produced more steel than the Axis powers combined, and vast wartime expansion of the city’s productive system seemed a harbinger of continued dominance. Within decades, however, the tide had turned on Pittsburgh’s industrial preeminence and decline slipped into collapse by the 1980s. Author David Jardini chronicles this astounding ascendance and breathtaking fall, tracing the underlying factors that drove first the emergence of Pittsburgh steel, then its decline and collapse. The book tells a tale of vast riches, exhilarating achievement, grinding hardship, and environmental degradation—and an industrial legacy now woven into the very DNA of a region.

200 Years of Iron, Ambition, and the Forging of Modern America

The Rise and Fall of Pittsburgh Steel

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